Comment Worth Noting: What One Reader Said to President Trump
Comment worth noting: What one reader said to President Trump
Posted by Ann Corcoran on February 4, 2017
Editor: This is from a reader named Paul. He took my suggestion and wrote to the White House comment page.
Before you read it (below) consider this:
Since we have no idea if our comments to the White House website go down a black hole, use whatever you tell the President more broadly.
First, copy what you told Pres. Trump to your member of Congress and two US Senators. For good measure send it to your governors and your state and local elected representatives. Always ask those elected officials, especially your Washington, DC reps, a question so that they MIGHT feel compelled to respond to you.
Then you can use your comment as a part of a letter to the editor to your local newspaper. Simply say, Dear Editor, this is where I stand on President Trump’s Executive order and I believe there are many people in our community who feel the same way. Be sure to make it clear it is a ‘Letter to the editor.’
Finally send your comment to any groups you participate in, your e-mail lists, and send it to your facebook page too. Ask everyone to go to the White House website (more then once if they want to!) and do the same!
In other words, don’t waste your comment, but make it go far and wide!
Here is what Paul said to Donald Trump a couple of days ago:
So far, I’m disappointed with Trump’s actions on immigration. They’re not nearly muscular enough.
DACA and DAPA shouldn’t have been cancelled on Day 1. Refugee intake should simply be on moratorium, not just in abeyance for a few months. And asylum should be shut down, too, since it’s almost entirely fraudulent.
One important, discrete thing to do is to turn off the federal money to the nine national refugee-resettlement agencies …
Church World Service (CWS)
Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) (secular)
Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM)
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)
International Rescue Committee (IRC) (secular)
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) (secular)
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS)
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
World Relief Corporation (WR)
.. which are essentially federal contractors. Many of their names suggest that they’re charitable organizations, funded by donations from generous American citizens. Instead, the vast bulk of their money comes from us taxpayers, who have no choice about the exactions.
It’s time for any remaining refugee intake to be done solely by private parties on their own nickel. And they should also be made responsible for the well-being of any such refugees after they arrive — as it is now, most of the refugees are dumped into our welfare programs, and they wind up being an even bigger expense — MUCH bigger — to us taxpayers than the resettlement agencies.
Tell everyone you know to contact the White House website and leave a polite message for President Donald Trump! Click here. Then put your comment(s) to good use!
This post is filed in our ‘Comments worth noting/guest posts’ archive here.
Don’t miss my previous post this morning about how panic has set in among the contractors listed in Paul’s comment. Trump is breaking their rice bowls (taxpayer-funded jobs going bye! bye!).
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/comment-worth-noting-what-one-reader-said-to-president-trump/
